Lazarow World-Hike-About

We left Taos and traveled toward Angels Fire, a skiing resort. We still have not come across any skiers though. Hikes 15 and 16 were in the neighboring towns of Angels Fire and Eagles Nest in New Mexico. We hear a lot of talk about angels in this part of the world. However, we submit nothing can ‘top’ the climb and excitement (danger) of Angels’ Landing at Zion. The cliff walls in Zion are 90%--end of story. New Mexico has stunning surrounding mountains covered with trees, much like its neighbor, Colorado . We are in awe of the natural beauty we experience. These hikes required some skill as we crossed water, climbed on loose soil and stones up steep gradients. We did not think about life too much on the trail as we needed full concentration for our footing. It was a case of soul faith and good sole treads. Both hikes were seven miles. Our editor chooses the hikes mostly and we are starting to discern a pattern. They do not exceed that distance (7 miles) lately—the recent eleven-mile ...

We set off bright and early to the Cimarron State Park in New Mexico, found the correct mile marker number and pulled into the turnout. So far so good! We were told to look for a log with water running over it. So there we stand, the stream in front of us, looking for the log. Aaaaah! We spot it. But oh no! ….. a few yards away, is another log – both crossing the stream with trail paths beyond. It was a real “eeny, meeny,” situation. We began with “eeny” but realized shortly after the start that it was not the way to go. Okay, we thought, now we are clever…. so we proceeded to follow the other path. After about 20 minutes of scaling rocks, hanging from trees and gripping anything along the way to keep us upright …but all the while, following a path (of some sort), we came to a rapidly flowing stream with just a narrow log stretched high over it. Jeff balanced his way across nicely… but with all my huffing and puffing from the last part of the trail, I definitely was not s...